Additional notations from Clyde Hooks follow. Thanks again, Clyde. Charlotte --- Clyde Hooks <c_hooks@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >>POPLAR SPRINGS METHODIST CHURCH > >> > Here are some notes I made several years ago. I will list > what the tombstone did and did not show. Some of the graves may have new tombstones by now. > > >M. Elizabeth Key Hutcheson > >21 Mar 1859 - 1944 > >Spouse: James B Hutcheson > >d/o Bennett & Caroline V. Barwick Key > > > Elizabeth Kea Hutcheson; 1858-1944; next to or double > with James B. > Hutcheson; does not list her parents > > >Morris Denton Key > >5 Apr 1891 - 5 Oct 1952 > >Spouse: Lelia Bertha Flanders > >s/o John Francis & Martha E. Sumner Key > > > Morris Key; dates are okay; in same lot: Bertha Flanders > Key; Feb. 14, > 1898; Oct. 27, 1961; also in same lot: Majorie L. Key, > Mar. 5, 1926; > Mar. 3, 1984; tombstone does not list his parents > > >Lou Ann Miller Webb > >16 Jan 1877 - 28 Jan 1965 > >Spouse: Layola Atomus R Webb > > > Lou Ann Webb; dates okay; tombstone does not list her > husband > > >Lelia Martha Pope Hutcheson > >4 May 1881 - 7 Dec 1964 > >Spouse: William A Hutcheson > > > Lelia Pope Hutcheson; May 4, 1881; Dec. 7, 1963; double > with William > Aaron Hutcheson > > >Vina Lou Rowland Gillis > >1893 - 8 Dec 1997 > >Spouse: Carl L. Gillis > >d/o Joseph B. & Martha Ivey Rowland > > > Vina Lou Rowland Gillis; June 18, 1893; she had not died > when I was > there; double with Carl L. Gillis, Sr.; her parents' > names were not on > the tombstone > > >Mamie J. Scott Woods > >20 Apr 1895 - 29 May 1962 > >Spouse: John Newton Woods > >d/o William Perry & Nancy Ellen Wiggins Scott > > > Mayme S. Woods; dates okay; double with John N. Woods; > Jan. 17, 1878; > June 30, 1958; her parents' names are not on the > tombstone. > > >William Perry Scott > >17 Feb 1865 - 5 May 1950 > >Spouse: Nancy Ellen Wiggins > >s/o William Thomas & Nancy G. Flanders Scott > > > Name and dates okay; double with Nancy Ellen Scott; Apr. > 12, 1863; June > 23, 1935; parents' names not on tombstone. > > >John S. Skinner > >15 Apr 1883 - 5 Aug 1930 > >Spouse: Mary Ruth Beasley > >s/o Alexander M. & Nancy J. Skinner > > > John Skinner; dates okay; next to Ruthie B. Skinner; > Sept. 23, 1881; May > 20, 1954; parents' names not on tombstone. > > >Joseph Madison Smith > >8 Mar 1862 - 18 Dec 1917 > >Spouse: Bessie Lindsey > >s/o Joseph Curtis Elizabeth A. Mason Smith > > > >Joseph Madison Smith > >8 Mar 1862 - 18 Dec 1917 > >Spouse: Ritter Jane Hutcheson > >s/o Joseph Curtis & Elizabeth A. Mason Smith > > > Joseph M. Smith; dates okay; next to Ritter J.; parents > names not on > tombstone. > > Lester G. Smith should be > > Lester C. Smith; Feb. 14, 1886; Nov. 26, 1965 (dates were > okay); double > with Pearl B. Smith; Jan. 28, 1890; Sept. 29, 1982; > parents' names not > on tombstone > > >Mamie Lee Smith > >13 May 1899 - 17 Feb 1899 > >d/o Joseph Madison & Ritter Jane Hutcheson Smith > > > name okay; date of birth okay; year of death should be > 1900; d/o Joseph > M. & R. J. Smith > > >Nancy Smith Flanders > >7 Feb 1856 - 20 Jan 1898 > >Spouse: Joseph Robert Flanders > >d/o William Thomas & Nancy E. Key Smith > > > Nancy Flanders; 1856 - 1898; next to Joseph R. Flanders; > 1855 - 1922; > parents' names not on tombstone > > >Pearl Smith Johnson > >20 Jul 1896 - 16 Oct 1970 > >Spouse: Hinton T. Johnson > >d/o Joseph Madison & Ritter Jane Hutcheson Smith > > > Pearl S. Johnson; dates okay; double with Hanion T. > Johnson; parents' > names not on tombstone > > >Ruby Jane Smith > >1 Apr 1898 - 19 Aug 1899 > >d/o Joseph Madison & Ritter Jane Hutcheson Smith > > > name okay; dates okay; d/o of Joseph M. & R. J. Smith; > tombstone is broken > > >William Chestnut Smith > >4 Apr 1867 - 15 Jun 1924 > >Spouse: Mary E. Thigpen > >s/o David Harrison & Nancy Flanders Smith > > > W. C. Smith; 1867 - June 15, 1924; next to Mollie W. > Smith; 1879 - 1959; > next to Mollie Smith; Mar. 1, 1903; Aug. 22, 1904; his > parents' names > not on tombstone > > >John Lee Thompson > >5 Nov 1856 - 23 Mar 1912 > >Spouse: Mary Catherine Beasley > >s/o John Nelson & Amelia Arrena Key Thompson > > > John Lee Thompson; Nov. 5, 1856; Mar. 24, 1912; next to > Catherine > Thompson; 1849 - 1935; parents names not there > > >Lillian A. Thompson Flanders > >6 May 1871 - 1 May 1951 > >Spouse: Joseph Robert Flanders > >d/o Robert Bird & Elizabeth Hall Thompson > > > Lillian Flanders; dates okay; next to Joseph R. Flanders; > 1855 - 1922; > parents names not there > > >Robert N Thompson > >14 Oct 1852 - 22 Nov 1936 > >Spouse: Rutha Jane Beasley > >s/o John Nelson & Amelia Arrena Key Thompson > > > >Robert N Thompson > >14 Oct 1852 - 22 Nov 1936 > >Spouse: Margaret H. Beasley > >s/o John Nelson & Amelia Arrena Key Thompson > > > name and dates okay; names of spouses and parents not > there > > >George M. Webb > >7 Nov 1879 - 13 Jul 1962 > >Spouse: Hattie B. Hutcheson > > > name and dates okay; next to Hattie > > >Four Webb infants (no dates) > >c/o John E. and Julia Ann Sarah Beasley Webb > > > Infant son of J. E. and J. S. Webb; times four > > >John E. Webb > >10 Jan 1859 - 29 Aug 1925 > >Spouse: Julia Ann Sarah Beasley > >s/o William Allen & Mary Ann Beasley Webb > > > >John E. Webb > >10 Jan 1859 - 29 Aug 1925 > >Spouse: Ida D. Riner > >s/o William Allen & Mary Ann Beasley Webb > > > name and dates okay; between Julia B. Webb, Feb. 18, 1860 > - Oct. 28, > 1912; and Ida Riner Webb, 1874 - 1946; his parents' names > not on tombstone > > >Layola Atomus R Webb > >20 Mar 1870 - 26 Aug 1926 > >Spouse: Lou Ann Miller > >s/o Joseph Driver & Louisa Montford Webb > > > L. R. Webb; dates okay; next to Lou Ann Webb; Jan. 16, > 1877; Jan. 28, > 1965; his parents' names not on tombstone > > >Lillie Webb Williams > >7 Jul 1888 - 9 Mar 1976 > >Spouse: Charlie L. Williams > >d/o John McGordon & Amanda Harvey Webb > > > Lillie W. Williams; dates okay; she may be next to > Charlie (my notes > don't show that); parents' names not on tombstone > > >Mary Webb Smith > >1879 - 1959 > >Spouse: William Chestnut Smith > >d/o John E. & Julia Ann Sarah Beasley Webb > > > Mollie W. Smith; dates okay; she may be next to W. C. > Smith (my notes > don't show that); parents' names not on tombstone > > >Willie Kemp Webb > >16 Jul 1894 - 9 Nov 1946 > >s/o William A. & Mary J. McCartley Webb > > > name and dates okay; he was a private during World War I; > I doubt that > his parents' names are on the tombstone > > >Nancy Ellen Wiggins Scott > > - 23 Jun 1935 > >d/o William Perry Scott > > > Nancy Ellen Scott; Apr. 12, 1863; June 23, 1935; parents' > names are not > on the tombstone > > >Charlie L. Williams > >21 Aug 1884 - 5 Aug 1965 > >Spouse: Lillie Webb > >s/o Freeman J. & Sophronia Mae Beasley Williams > > > Name and dates are okay; names of spouse and parents are > not on the > tombstone > > >Freeman J. Williams > >14 Feb 1861 - 26 Jan 1923 > >Spouse: Sophronia Mae Beasley > > > Johnson County Cemetery book says his name is F. J. > Williams and that he > married Phronie Beasley > > >Melvin Williams > >13 May 1920 - 20 Jan 1940 > >s/o Charlie L. & Lillie Webb Williams > > > name and dates okay; names of parents are not on the > tombstone > > >John Newton Woods > >17 Jan 1878 - 30 Jun 1958 > >Spouse: Mamie J. Scott > >s/o Archibald J. & Nancy Mozelle Key Woods Jr > > > John N. Woods; dates okay; double with Mayme S. Woods; > names of parents > are not on the tombstone. > > Note: I spoke with Ms. Mattie Lee Hoover Meadows after I > purchased a > copy of "Searching for our Ancestors Among the > Gravestones, A Cemetery > Record of Johnson County, Georgia." I told Ms. Meadows > that the book > contained information that was not listed on the > tombstones. She looked > me in the eye and said "everything in that book is listed > on the > tombstones." Ms. Meadows had to care for a child and > didn't personally > go to the cemeteries. > > Next, I sent corrections to the Johnson County Historical > Society, of > which I was a member, for a very short period of time. I > was accused of > criticizing people that had used their own time and money > to go to the > cemeteries and record them. I call it constructive > criticism. I like > to know who a person married and who their parents were, > but don't tell > me that information is on their tombstone if it isn't. > > It's not easy to survey a cemetery. I have surveyed the > same cemetery > two and three times and still find mistakes that I made. > One can't > survey a cemetery one time without making errors. > > The bottom line: Use cemetery books as a guide. Don't > believe > everything you read. Not even if I wrote it. Clyde > Hooks > > > > ==== GAJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain > letters, political announcements, current events, items > for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words > - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett > kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search > for your ancestors at the same time. 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